What’s on TV Friday: ‘XY Chelsea’ and ‘Alles Ist Gut’

What’s on TV

XY CHELSEA (2019) 9 p.m. on Showtime. In mid-2017, months after her jail sentence for leaking labeled authorities paperwork was commuted by former President Barack Obama, Chelsea Manning summed up her motivation in an interview with The New York Times Magazine: “I wanted people to see what I was seeing.” Tim Travers Hawkins digs into the lifetime of Manning, an Army analyst on the time she launchedthe paperwork to WikiLeaks in 2010. This new documentary focuses on the interval after her sentence is commuted. “Manning’s turbulent, remarkable story — including a troubled Oklahoma childhood with heavy-drinking parents, two suicide attempts and seven years in an all-male prison while transitioning to a woman — is a nonfiction filmmaker’s dream,” Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her evaluation for The Times. “Hawkins, however, seems content to hover on its surface, a decision that, depending on your viewpoint, feels either cowardly or humane.”

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942) 10 p.m. on TCM. You’ve simply directed your first characteristic movie. Congratulations! It’s “Citizen Kane.” How will you presumably observe it up? Orson Welles’s reply to that query was this era drama, which chronicles the autumn of a rich Indianapolis household on the flip of the 20th century. The solid contains Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter and Tim Holt; Welles narrates. While the studio’s ample chopping of the movie was a topic of Welles’s chagrin (“Everybody they could find was cutting it,” he as soon as mentioned), it’s nonetheless thought of a traditional.